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Microsoft office help/alternatives

carly burn
carly burn Posts: 19,511
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I need to make and send a document via Email.My microsoft office free trial has expired and I'm not shelling out any dough for the full bifta.
Any alternative ideas from you computer nerds. ;-)

All help much appreciated as ever.

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  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    http://www.openoffice.org/

    It's free and it's just like office.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,940
    Here's a bit of advice - don't call them "nerds". They get offended by it.

    The correct term is "geek"!
    ;-)
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Poplcon has the answer. :-)
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,319
    edited January 2013
    could you use Wordpad perhaps? I think it is installed as part of the operating system and does similar job to MS word.

    Re Openoffice, tried it once about 2 years ago and found it was incompatible with MSoffice in some important formatting aspects even when saving as recommended file type -i.e. tables, paragraphs, tracked changes
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    Off_it said:

    Here's a bit of advice - don't call them "nerds". They get offended by it.

    The correct term is "geek"!
    ;-)

    This
  • Charlton and on
    Charlton and on Posts: 984
    Or Google drive, particularly handy if you're on gmail.
  • better red than dead
    better red than dead Posts: 491
    look at Kingsoft. It's free and I've found this compatible with Word and it also has versions of Excel and Presentation
  • csr_cafc
    csr_cafc Posts: 267
    Libre Office is not bad either - if you know someone who works in education/in school you can usually get the complete office package for a really low sum.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,416
    edited January 2013
    Can get a 60 day trial for free of Office 365 (the internet based version). Helped me out while I was looking for a mate who had a version of Office 2010 for me to "borrow". Trouble is, like all stuff today they try to be too clever and you have to wade through tons of "thrilling" stuff that you will never ever use, just to use word,excel,access etc. Bloody Geeks!

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